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To Us Gold Rush City the Case for Lightweight Construction THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE HEADLINES l Alstom brings F1 technology to trams l Detroit LRT ‘a model for future US schemes’ l London upgrades: GBP12bn funding gap LIGHT RAIL ADDS VALUE TO US GOLD RUSH CITY The case for lightweight construction Wirral Waters Poznan Independent Inspirational audit backs integration of pioneering UK modern and streetcar scheme heritage systems MARCH 2013 No. 903 WWW . LRTA . ORG l WWW . TRAMNEWS . NET £3.80 60th UITP World Congress and Mobility & City Transport Exhibition • 21 Congress sessions and 10 Regional workshops: up-to-date knowledge and hot issues • 15 Expo forums to share product development information • Platform for innovations, networking, business opportunities • Multi-modal Exhibition, 30,000m² • Gathering 10,000 public transport professionals • Over 150 speakers from 30+ countries • A special Swiss Day! www.uitpgeneva2013.org Organiser Local host Supporters Under the patronage of PubLayout_Adpage.indd Genève_A4_IMove2.indd 1 1 26/10/20125/07/12 9:41:34 16:26 Contents The official journal of the Light Rail Transit Association 84 News 84 MARCH 2013 Vol. 76 No. 903 Over-budget Tel Aviv light rail faces long delays; Tube cele- www.tramnews.net brates, but faces project funding gap; Alstom trams harness F1 EDITORIAL power; Chinese metro growth continues - but can it last? Editor: Simon Johnston Tel: +44 (0)1832 281131 E-mail: [email protected] 88 Is HS2 able to unlock UK tramway money? Eaglethorpe Barns, Warmington, Peterborough PE8 6TJ, UK. Does the planned construction of ultra-fast high-speed rail Associate Editor: Tony Streeter open the doors for new light rail in the UK? E-mail: [email protected] 90 Wirral Streetcar: Pioneering small-starts Worldwide Editor: Michael Taplin 93 Flat 1, 10 Hope Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight PO37 6EA, UK. TAUT reports on the latest developments for a green US-style E-mail: [email protected] ‘streetcar’ circulator for the UK’s largest regeneration scheme. News Editor: John Symons 93 Light rail’s value in Gold Rush City 17 Whitmore Avenue, Werrington, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST9 0LW, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Vic Simons reports from the Californian capital, Sacramento, following the opening of the airport line’s first stage. Senior Contributor: Neil Pulling Worldwide Contributors: Aare Olander, Nikolai 99 Systems Factfile: Dresden Semyonov, Sergei Tarkhov (CIS), Mike Russell, Norman Bartlett, Saxony’s capital is a city with a very apparent commitment Thomas Wagner, Pedro Costa, Richard Felski, Jordi Ibanez (Europe), Yoshiri to public transport. Neil Pulling reports. 99 Nogi (Japan), Anthony Bailey, Ian Hammond, Paul Nicholson (Australia), Vic Simons, Charles Lietwiler, Steve Morgan, Tom Swinney (US). 104 Simplifying to reduce cost Production Executive: Carla Corrado David Gibson considers some of the opportunities to reduce Tel: +44 (0)1832 281134 E-mail: [email protected] tramway construction costs. Design: Debbie Nolan 107 Worldwide Review Commercial Manager: Vicky Binley Amiens and Caen to have joint order for trams; Buenos Aires Tel: +44 (0)1832 281132 E-mail: [email protected] modernisation heralds end of wooden stock; Hong Kong Advertising Manager: Andy Adams 116 Tel: +44 (0)1832 281135 E-mail: [email protected] fleet and CBTC orders for Hyundai-Rotem and Siemens; Eaglethorpe Barns, Warmington, Peterborough PE8 6TJ, UK. Milan orders new cars. Publisher: Howard Johnston 113 Letters Tramways & Urban Transit is jointly published by the LRTA and LRTA Debate on Jerusalem and the security issue; the need to take Publishing on the third Friday of each month preceding the cover date. financing seriously; appeal to preserve Buenos Aires cars. LRTA Website and Diary: Brian Lomas 116 Classic Trams: Poznan E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] The Polish city is home to an active heritage operation. LRTA MEMBERSHIP (with TAUT subscription) Tramways & Urban Transit is sent free to all paid-up members of the Light Rail Transit Association. You are welcome to join the LRTA. SUBSCRIPTIONS: LRTA Membership Secretary (Dept T06), Never mind peak oil, worry about ‘smart’ cars 38 Wolseley Road, Sale M33 7AU, UK. SIMON JOHNSTON, EDITOR BACK ISSUES: Tel: +44 (0)1406 373070 PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION: Warners (Midlands) plc, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1778 391000. Following revealing conversations with tough economic climate by offering more LRTA REGISTERED OFFICE: c/o 138 Radnor Avenue, Welling, insiders at two of the world’s largest for our money. Better equipment, longer Kent DA16 2BY. Private company limited by guarantee, No. 5072319 automobile manufacturers this month – the warranties, increased integration with in England and Wales. battle for the hearts, minds and purse the latest smartphones, and all manner LRTA Chairman: Andrew Braddock. LRTA Deputy Chairman: Vic Simons strings of potential urban rail users is to get of little luxuries to make cars more LRTA PUBLISHING REGISTERED OFFICE: c/o 8 Berwick Place, very interesting over the next few years. enjoyable places to spend time. Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 4TU. Private Limited Company, No. 06169422 in England and Wales. To attract people out of their cars and The thinking (well, mine anyway) goes © LRTA Publishing 2013. onto urban rail systems we need to play like this: It’s now possible to buy a car that Articles are submitted on the understanding they may also later be used to our strengths: convenience, reliability, achieves 70-80mpg (4l-3.5l/100km), on our websites or other media. A contribution is accepted on the basis that value for money, green credentials, offering reduced emissions (with lower its author is responsible for the opinions expressed in it, and such opinions comfort and technological connectivity. tax) that can talk to your smartphone are not those of LRTA Publishing or the LRTA. All rights reserved. On the first two, mass transit systems – reading SMS messages, emails and No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording certainly deliver. On the following four Bluetooth for all your digital media – with or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior we may struggle if put up against the a five/seven-year warranty. In the UK, permission in writing from the copyright owner. Multiple copying of the automakers, which are delivering better all this can be yours around GBP10 000. contents of the magazine without prior written approval is not permitted. and better products year on year – and Spread over a three- or five-year period, at increasingly attractive prices. the ‘burden’ of private motoring reduces THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE HEADLINES Electric cars will always fail to when household finances are constrained. l Alstom brings F1 technology to trams l Detroit LRT ‘a model capture mass market share when the As cars get cleverer and better in leaps for future US schemes’ l London upgrades: GBP12bn funding gap infrastructure isn’t in place to support and bounds, we need to keep pace. them – disappointing sales have been l An apology is due to Ian Hammond, recorded to date with range anxiety one one of our Australasian contributors, of the biggest stumbling blocks. But the Sacramento 220 incorrectly credited as co-author of the leads a four-car CAF next generation of hybrids and ‘range Adelaide Systems Factfile in TAUT 901. LIGHT RAIL ADDS VALUE extenders’ are certainly capable of We apologise for any inconvenience or TO US GOLD RUSH CITY unit at Archives Plaza The case for lightweight construction turning heads away from public transport. embarrassment this may have caused. Wirral Waters Poznan westbound to Folsom Independent Inspirational audit backs integration of At the same time, car manufacturers For factual corrections to this piece, see pioneering UK modern and streetcar scheme heritage systems MARCH on 1 November 2012. 2013 No. 903 WWW . LRTA . ORG l WWW . TRAMNEWS . NET £3.80 are battling it out for market share in a Letters – page 114. TAUT_1303_Cover.indd 1 30/01/2013 11:41 Vic Simons www.tramnews.net . www.Irta.org MARCH 2013 83 News Flexity 2 OVER-BUDGET TEL AVIV chosen for Suzhou LRT FACES LONG DELAYS BOMBARDIer’s joint venture ISRAELI Finance Ministers announced in January unlikely to open before 2019, officials have said. with CSR Nanjing Puzhen has that the Tel Aviv light rail project is likely to be de- The findings have led finance ministry officials received an order for 18 low- layed by at least two years after a detailed project to consider whether to continue with the further floor trams based on the Flexity 2 analysis found serious flaws in its cost estimates. proposed lines as state-funded schemes or through design from the Chinese city of The analysis, by auditor Agis, found that the a mechanism where a private sector licensee would Suzhou, which is building an government-owned NTA Metropolitan Mass Tran- raise finance, supported by state subsidies. 18km (11.2-mile) line linking sit – responsible for constructing the LRT system Detailed design has already begun on the 35km the centre of the industrial zone – had already exceeded its NIS15bn budget to (21.7-mile) Green line, which should be commis- and the West Lakeside area. construct the first 22km (13.7-mile) Red line from sioned in 2020 but now also faces delays. The 32m trams will be built in Petah Tikva to Bat Yam by NIS5bn. The cost over- . On 9 January, an NTA conference saw 22 compa- Nanjing and mark the first order runs are ascribed to higher NTA operating costs nies from across Israel and Europe in attendance. for the joint venture, that signed and changes in the Red line’s design, including An invitation to prequalify for a contract to supply a ten-year technology transfer enlarging planned underground stations.
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